Chrome Remote Desktop

Chrome Remote Desktop
Developer(s) Google, Inc.
Initial release October 8, 2011[1]
Stable release 42.0.2311.37 / April 8, 2015
Operating system Chrome OS, Linux (beta), OS X, iOS, Windows, Android
Type Remote desktop software
License BSD
Website chrome.google.com/remotedesktop

Chrome Remote Desktop is a remote desktop software tool developed by Google that allows a user to remotely control another computer using a Chromoting protocol developed by Google. It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network.

Chrome Remote Desktop requires the use of Google Chrome, along with the installation of an extension from the Chrome Web Store.

Chrome Remote Desktop supports both a remote assistance mode, allowing a user to control another person's computer (typically to diagnose or troubleshoot a problem) as well as a remote desktop mode where a user can connect to another one of their own machines remotely.[2] While remote assistance login via PIN passwords is available for terminals running Windows, Mac, Android[3] or Linux operating systems, the remote desktop functionality is supported for Windows, Mac[2] and Linux operating systems with Linux support in beta.[4] It uses VP8 video to display the remote computer's desktop to the user.[5] Under Windows, it supports copy-paste and real time audio feed as well, but lacks an option to disable sharing and transmission of the audio stream.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Chrome Remote Desktop". Google Operating System (Unofficial Google Blog).
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Chrome Remote Desktop". Chrome Web Store.
  3. ↑ http://mashable.com/2014/04/17/google-remote-desktop-android/
  4. ↑ "Introducing Chrome Remote Desktop for Linux (Beta)!". 2014-07-07. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
  5. ↑ "Next step in the Chrome OS journey". Official Google Blog.
  6. ↑ "Controlling your computer from afar". Google Chrome Blog.